Miscellany: Me and my Google

The Donald's money-saving design, via bodybuilding.com.

On the Air Firce One pseudo-scandal:

Another win by @realDonaldTrump... @Boeing will deliver new version of Air Force One well under budget.https://t.co/HTAZy7KrNV

— Harlan Hill (@Harlan) December 21, 2016

Easy for Muilenberg to make the promise since it was never going to cost near $4 billion in the first place. https://t.co/OLO3a7kZCc

— Yul Streblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 21, 2016

.Phony master negotiator @realDonaldTrump couldn't get any commitment on $379 billion F-35 though. That's the real outrageous spending. https://t.co/OLO3a7kZCc

— Yul Streblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 21, 2016

Miscellaneous

Civilians fleeing toward rebel-held territory, Aleppo, by an anonymous AFP stringer, via Wired, and better you should read their searing article, tweets from the powerless at the front, than these, if you had to choose one.

I spent way too much time with the Twitter today to do a proper post, and more contemplating the horror of Aleppo being destroyed by mostly Syrian government and Russian forces and their enemies of the Nusra Front, whose new name I still can't make myself learn, and just nothing I can say at all, except this one faint ray of hopefulness from a pretty unexpected quarter:

Iran VP: Syria war images 'bother me' @AJEnglish https://t.co/RF0sngUpEq courage and compassion in Iran power structure

— (((Yastreblyansky))) (@Yastreblyansky) December 14, 2016

In more trivial news, former George W. Bush spokesperson Dana Perino was upset by the bad attitude shown by climate scientists in response to a series of Trump moves that frankly sounded fairly scary to me:

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Something is wrong with this machine and its relationship to Google services including Chrome, Blogger, and Google itself, and I'm having trouble writing up a morning post. This seems to be going OK though. Be back later, I trust.

Conservatives say "Sorry, Donald Trump Has A Point" http://t.co/qWdvS61K9b #YouGuysThoughtDylannRoofHadAPointIntoHeWalkedIntoAnAMEChurch

— Rugged Amethyst (@GrooveSDC) July 2, 2015

Bet they're not *really* sorry. https://t.co/vDIlwLy01s

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) July 2, 2015

Christians will be told, after SCOTUS ruling, oath to uphold Constitution requires you to support sodomy-based marriage.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) July 1, 2015

Fool. Constitution says all sorts of things are legal but you don't have to *support* any of them.. https://t.co/5o1Plt5t0S

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) July 1, 2015

Tells #Trump, "You're fired." pic.twitter.com/NZxPH41B10

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) July 1, 2015

I was actually in Herald Square across 7th Avenue from Macy's when I saw the news on my phone of their detaching themselves from that racist fraud, and took a picture of the dear old thing.